Modi targeted as cyber war hots up ahead of Guj polls

"What the supporters of the Chief Minister were doing was just a manipulation of the internet to make him repositioned as one of the top influential leader of year. This was not a natural vote as we know that his supporters were manipulating it.

So his opponents have voted against him as they have come to know reality of things in Gujarat," Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi said.

Speaking on the Congress' preparedness to counter Modi in cyber space Doshi said, "we have made functional an IT cell which works from morning 10 AM to 8 PM in night from the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) office after our new president Arjun Modhwaida took charge. Their work is just to counter the propaganda of Chief minister Narendra Modi on cyber space".

The IT cell which is being monitored by state Congress president Arjun Modhvaida, has been asked to make maximum use of social networking sites, upload our leaders' speeches on YouTube, e-mail negative stories on Modi and BJP to a large section of the population, he further said.